Here is my post at CatholicVote.com on the new encyclical by Pope Francis.

Enjoy.

In Lumen fidei (The light of faith), Pope Francis’s first encyclical, he shows us more of his simple style and central themes which have been the constant undercurrent in his daily homilies and Wednesday audiences. Short and clear, the document from the still-new Pontiff provides us with an accessible teaching about the importance of faith to family, society, theology and Church at a time when everywhere secular individualism is the rule of the day. ….